Do tourists really go to Afghanistan?

A Taliban attack on a group of foreign tourists in Afghanistan, that left at least six people wounded, is not the first of its kind in the country. However, while civilian casualties in Afghanistan have reached their highest-recorded level, attacks on tourists are rare. The fact Afghanistan attracts tourists at all may come as a surprise to some, but a number of companies offer tours to the country where there were more than 11,000 casualties of violence last year. The UN World Tourism Organization does not receive statistics from the Afghan government on tourist numbers, so it is difficult to track how many visitors are making it there. But Afghanistan does send the UNWTO data on...